I have a very sensitive nose. This is not always a good thing. For the last two weeks I wake up in the morning and I smell smoke. B.C. presently has something over 400 wildfires burning and this valley seems to suck smoke into it like there is no tomorrow. So upon waking I can smell smoke and it tells me that once again there is dry, warm weather prevailing. Still, in this neck of the woods, though it is still extremely dry, there is a change in the air. The nights are now beginning to feel cooler and in the morning there is a crispness in the air that wasn't there a few short days ago. People around here are predicting a heavy snowpack this year and since our actual rainfall is low every year, we rely heavily on a high snowpack for most of the moisture for growing things in the garden, so I will be happy if what everyone is predicting comes true..... we need it.
So I am now working on the cotton summer sweater question and I have been spinning on my charkha in an effort to get my summer sweater sample finished before summer is at a complete end. I am using dyed rovings that I painted this summer at the cotton dyeing workshop that I did in Olds. It is looking really pretty. It is a really nice soft summer green, which is one of my favorite colours. I have one spool of singles done and I need to do two more then ply the whole thing. I've picked out a lovely knitted lace top from Vogue Knitting magazine. It feels really good to see progress on my books.
Teapot has finished the fencing on the new paddock for the horse. He still has some work to do on the fencing for the sheep/alpaca paddocks. It will be good to get it done as then the animals can get out on grass in the summer. Teapot has worked hard this summer and though the roof on the electrical shed is not done yet I feel that we will get it finished before the snow comes.
It looks like we will be taking a short vacation before the end of the summer arrives. Teapot and I are working on the logistics.... yes I know I am making it sound like a covert operation. But we are planning on going down the river for a couple of days with the Daughters and possibly another couple if they decide they want to come.... the logistics involves figuring out how to get four adults, two youths, two dogs, and all our camping gear into two canoes. You see it is because we have been teaching the Daughters how to paddle this summer that we feel they are not ready yet to take a canoe of their own.... after watching them paddle about for a number of days on the lake and knowing that they don't really have good control over the canoe that we have decided that they are not ready for the river where there is current to push and pull the canoe around. Teapot is going to ferry everything down to the camping spot. We are going to make a number of trips (hopefully only two) with me and the gear being dropped off on round one.... I will set up camp (this is on an island) while Teapot makes a short trip down the river to a boat launch where Opa (my dad) will pick him up, at which point he will load the canoe on top of Opa's van and they will drive back up river and then come down river with the Daughters and dogs. The other couple are on their own if they come at all. Then later on when Teapot has time after our hay has been picked up and purchased we will take the Daughters down to PG for a pre-school shopping trip which they will be ecstatic about..... and know nothing of yet.
But meanwhile I have lots of work and need to get at it.... so I had better go and start working on the cotton punis that I carded last night in the middle of the night, while waiting for Jiggs to come in after she f--ted and evacuated Teapot and I from our bedroom..... there is seriously something wrong with a dog that smells that bad! See what I mean?.... Having a sensitive nose is not always a good thing..... argh! And on that unfortunate note I will end this epistle here... thanks heavens eh?!!
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